>>12119164That "crisis is the mother of progress" is only half right. It also is the killer of progress. Any rampant change shakes the pot up enough, and when you work on geological scales that's a massive shake.
And natural selection did allow for the most suitable to survive. I'll give you that, its a working system. However, the fact that humanity can build beyond it implies there's far better, and our standard of "good" can be way higher than "natural".
